Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 23:21:33 +0100 (CET) From: "Santiago Perez-Cacho Jr." <sanper@pcfa.es.eu.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't boot from 1st disk on 2nd IDE controller Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990201230814.1126A-100000@ergopc.pcfa.es.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <199902010517.VAA10261@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > set root_disk_unit=2 > That did it!!! FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT is now happily running on the master disk of the second IDE controller. > > Hello!! > > I'm running 4.0-CURRENT cvsupped last Friday. I've tried to move my > > installation from a partition on the first disk of the first IDE > > controller to a new disk that I've placed as master of the second IDE > > controller. Everything looks fine until the system tries to mount the > > root partition and can't find it, so it panics. I've tried breaking the > > boot process and setting num_ide_disks and rootdev to no avail. > > > > Here is the dmesg and error messages: > > [snip] > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > Thanks to all that answered! --------------------- Santiago Perez-Cacho sanper@pcfa.es.eu.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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